Journal: Antioxidants
Article Title: Nimbolide Inhibits SOD2 to Control Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Growth and Metastasis
doi: 10.3390/antiox12101791
Figure Lengend Snippet: SOD2 overexpression is associated with poor survival in pancreas adenocarcinoma: ( A ) heat-map representation of SOD1, SOD2, SOD3, and CAT expression in different cancer tissue including pancreatic cancer; ( B ) immunohistochemistry analysis of SOD2 expression in normal pancreas and different stages of human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma tumor tissues; SOD2-positive cells indicated by brown staining at 40× magnification (NT—normal tissue, MT—malignant tissue, MTS1—malignant tissue stage 1; MTS2—malignant tissue stage 2, MTS3—malignant tissue stage 3, MTS4—malignant tissue stage 4); ( C ) expression of SOD2 in pancreatic adenocarcinoma based on tumor grade using UALCAN; ( D ) SOD2 expression in normal, tumor, and metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma cells were compared using TNMplot analysis; ( E ) Western blot and ( F ) densitometric analysis of SOD2 expression in a panel of pancreatic cancer cell lines and normal pancreas cell line; Each bar represents the mean ± SEM of three separate experiments, * p < 0.05; ( G ) immunofluorescence analysis of SOD2 expression in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma cells compared with normal pancreas cells at 100× magnification via confocal microscopy; ( H ) Kaplan–Meier plot for overall survival; ( I ) recurrence-free survival (months) for SOD2 expression.
Article Snippet: In brief, a human PDAC tissue microarray (PA484, US Biomax, Rockville, MD, USA) and HPAC cell line xenograft tissues were used to assess the expression of SOD2 (13141), pAkt (4060), BAX (2772), Snail (3879), cleaved caspase 9 (9509), pmTOR (5536), and E-cadherin (3195) proteins (Cell signaling Technology Inc., Danvers, MA, USA).
Techniques: Over Expression, Expressing, Immunohistochemistry, Staining, Western Blot, Immunofluorescence, Confocal Microscopy